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Originally Posted by PhillyRising
I guess it's a good thing there is no East Philadelphia!
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We have an "East Chicago" in Chicagoland, but it's just over the border in NW Indiana, sandwiched between Hammond and Gary.
And apropos of this thread, it's home to Indian Harbor, the largest integrated steel mill in North America.
It's Eastward location means that its air pollution, along with the air pollution produced by the two other nearby giant steel mills (Gary Works & Burns Harbor) and the humongous BP oil refinery (largest in the US outside of the gulf coast) in NW Indiana, are carried away from Chicagoland by the prevailing winds.
The "prevailing winds" theory certainly wasn't the main reason why the steel industry coalesced down there instead of up on the ritzy north shore, but it certainly didn't hurt.
Together, the three NW Indiana steel mills pictured below produce over half of the nation's primary steel made from raw iron ore.
Indiana Harbor (Cleveland Cliffs):
source: wikipedia
Gary Works (US Steel):
(to give a sense of scale to these steel mills, the ship channel pictured below is over 1 mile long)
source:
https://www.wbaa.org/post/steelworke...utcry#stream/0
Burns Harbor (Cleveland Cliffs):
source: wikipedia